Post AMCRlLKc2nF0KuY2y0 by Wylsym@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AMBlxGGgV0ci25iALI by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T02:49:30Z
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I spoke with a former coworker today. We reminisced about our time working together at an employer in the late 1980s. We both left when we got a new boss that attempted to convert us into a Dataflex house. I hadn't even thought about Dataflex in decades. IMO it was coding in the loosest sense of the word. Has anyone even heard of it? There's nobody out there using it, right?
(DIR) Post #AMBlxGgCy72XJFeY7s by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T15:48:04Z
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@Tay0 Dude, I've never even heard of it and I'm super old.
(DIR) Post #AMBn7mnQW0G5lbbnZw by cooper@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T16:01:11Z
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@mike For what it's worth, @Tay0 as around for the very first internet harvesting season. He's actually in this official, internet training video.
(DIR) Post #AMBnCjiPOhetewccsa by cooper@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T16:02:05Z
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@mike For what it's worth, @Tay0 was around for the very first internet crop harvesting. He's actually in this official, internet training video.
(DIR) Post #AMBnEg99dWM3Ae3gEC by cooper@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T16:02:26Z
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@mike For what it's worth, @Tay0 was around for the very first internet crop harvesting. He's actually in this official, internet training video.
(DIR) Post #AMC3uH7oefHUzrHyam by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T19:09:10Z
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@mikeIt was akin to "programming" in dBASE or Foxbase. I wasn't a fan.
(DIR) Post #AMCRd4qnR5AYuAf0PQ by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T23:34:58Z
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@mikehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataFlexLast stable release was 3 months ago. Some poor bastards are still using it. I'll drink a beer for them.
(DIR) Post #AMCRlLKc2nF0KuY2y0 by Wylsym@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T23:03:58Z
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@Tay0 @mike I started with Fortran then Algol, Cobol, Assembly (all that for mainframes). It was a wonderful world of new experiences every day or week. Now everything seems so boring. Nothing really new. Just a new way to do the same Oldies things.
(DIR) Post #AMCRlLiibAWVXfpIXY by Tay0@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T23:22:30Z
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@WylsymFORTRAN was my first. You never forget your first. I made the jump to C and have been there ever since. For about 10 years I also did assembler but haven't touched that in over a decade. I'm happy doing what I do. I hate Rust. If I ever change it will probably be to a Lisp.@mike
(DIR) Post #AMCRlM6p9Xo0kR6Y76 by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-08-04T23:36:32Z
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@Tay0 My first (other than Basic of course) was Ada, and then I moved to C and then C++. I did a bunch of random ones in college that never really stuck, but those were the main ones. These days I'm more of a scripter than a programmer though.@Wylsym